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THIS is the pretty young mum at the heart of a sex slave gang jailed
last week for selling young girls in Britain's biggest human trafficking
ring.
SHAMELESS: Jailed Brown with her son
Victoria Brown lured the youngsters from eastern Europe and forced them to work 12-hour days having sex with up to 15 men.
The brothel madam, 25, was sentenced last Wednesday to three years in prison.
She and four others - Hungarians Mate Puskas, Zoltan Mohacsi, Istvan Toth and Peter Toth - were found guilty of conspiracy to control prostitutes and trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Now friends have revealed Brown organised the operation from an internet caf© in Croydon, Surrey, while heavily pregnant.
She was earning £20,000 a week, while her respectable middle-class parents were kept completely in the dark.
One pal said: "She's given this sob story to everyone that she was made to do it by Mate Puskas, who was her boyfriend and the father of her 21-monthold son Theo. But she was more than happy to take the money.
"To be fair she is a good mum but that means nothing now she is in prison.
"Theo has been left with her parents who are very respectable and had no idea what she was up to.
"She was running the ring during her pregnancy and after her son was born. It is disgusting. She has no morals."
Police say they know of 50 victims so far but fear the real number of women trafficked could be much higher.
Girls were recruited from deprived parts of Hungary and told they would be working in massage parlours.
Brown, who had worked as a PA for an engineering firm in Brighton, organised their flights then put them in cheap hotels near Gatwick before confiscating their passports. The victims were taken to dingy flats operating as brothels or put in cheap hotel rooms in cities including Manchester, Cardiff, Leeds, Glasgow and on the south coast.
There they were made to sell their bodies and pose for pornographic photos that were plastered on a website set up by Brown and Puskas, with girls often described as "fresh meat" to draw in customers.
The girls were told to charge clients £100 per hour but were only given 10% of what they earned. Many had up to 15 men a day visiting them.
One victim who gave evidence at the trial in Hove Crown Court, East Sussex, said she was threatened repeatedly with violence and feared for her family's safety.
She said: "I had to work. I was told posters would be put up in my home town in Hungary telling everyone I was selling my body, that I was a prostitute, if I didn't. I was ashamed.
"I told Istvan I wanted to go home, he threatened me and I was worried for my family. I was scared for what they'd do."
The victim, who was granted anonymity by the court, was made to work in a brothel in Woolwich, south London.
She escaped after confiding in two of her regular clients who offered to pay for a hostel.
The ring was busted in October 2012 after undercover police posed as customers. Brown and Puskas were caught when officers raided the caf©.
Jailing Brown for three years, Judge Richard Hayward said: "You are intelligent, you come from a respectable family, you had a good job and you threw it all away."
Puskas, 25, was jailed for six years and Mohacsi, 36, for four.
Brothers Istvan, 34, and Peter Toth, 28, were given five and four years respectively in their absence after they jumped bail. They are still on the run.
'She was running it while pregnant and after Theo was born. She has no morals'
SHAMELESS: Jailed Brown with her sonThe brothel madam, 25, was sentenced last Wednesday to three years in prison.
She and four others - Hungarians Mate Puskas, Zoltan Mohacsi, Istvan Toth and Peter Toth - were found guilty of conspiracy to control prostitutes and trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Now friends have revealed Brown organised the operation from an internet caf© in Croydon, Surrey, while heavily pregnant.
She was earning £20,000 a week, while her respectable middle-class parents were kept completely in the dark.
One pal said: "She's given this sob story to everyone that she was made to do it by Mate Puskas, who was her boyfriend and the father of her 21-monthold son Theo. But she was more than happy to take the money.
"To be fair she is a good mum but that means nothing now she is in prison.
"Theo has been left with her parents who are very respectable and had no idea what she was up to.
"She was running the ring during her pregnancy and after her son was born. It is disgusting. She has no morals."
Police say they know of 50 victims so far but fear the real number of women trafficked could be much higher.
Girls were recruited from deprived parts of Hungary and told they would be working in massage parlours.
Brown, who had worked as a PA for an engineering firm in Brighton, organised their flights then put them in cheap hotels near Gatwick before confiscating their passports. The victims were taken to dingy flats operating as brothels or put in cheap hotel rooms in cities including Manchester, Cardiff, Leeds, Glasgow and on the south coast.
There they were made to sell their bodies and pose for pornographic photos that were plastered on a website set up by Brown and Puskas, with girls often described as "fresh meat" to draw in customers.
The girls were told to charge clients £100 per hour but were only given 10% of what they earned. Many had up to 15 men a day visiting them.
One victim who gave evidence at the trial in Hove Crown Court, East Sussex, said she was threatened repeatedly with violence and feared for her family's safety.
She said: "I had to work. I was told posters would be put up in my home town in Hungary telling everyone I was selling my body, that I was a prostitute, if I didn't. I was ashamed.
"I told Istvan I wanted to go home, he threatened me and I was worried for my family. I was scared for what they'd do."
The victim, who was granted anonymity by the court, was made to work in a brothel in Woolwich, south London.
She escaped after confiding in two of her regular clients who offered to pay for a hostel.
The ring was busted in October 2012 after undercover police posed as customers. Brown and Puskas were caught when officers raided the caf©.
Jailing Brown for three years, Judge Richard Hayward said: "You are intelligent, you come from a respectable family, you had a good job and you threw it all away."
Puskas, 25, was jailed for six years and Mohacsi, 36, for four.
Brothers Istvan, 34, and Peter Toth, 28, were given five and four years respectively in their absence after they jumped bail. They are still on the run.
'She was running it while pregnant and after Theo was born. She has no morals'
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